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There are laws of nature, but they are harmonious, and conform
with all God’s working; but when the lords many and gods many set
themselves to explain God’s own principles and providences, present-
ing to the world strange fire in the place of divine, there is confusion.
The machinery of earth and heaven needs many faces to every wheel
in order to see the Hand beneath the wheels, bringing perfect order
from confusion. The living and true God is a necessity everywhere.
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A most interesting and important history is given in
Daniel 2
. Neb-
uchadnezzar, king of Babylon, dreamed a dream which he could not
bring to his remembrance when he awoke. “Then the king commanded
to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the
Chaldeans,” those whom he had exalted and upon whom he depended,
and, relating the circumstances, demanded that they should tell him
the dream. The wise men stood before the king in terror; for they had
no ray of light in regard to his dream. They could only say, “O king,
live forever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will show the interpre-
tation.” “The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is
gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream with the
interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses made
a dunghill. But if ye show the dream, and the interpretation thereof,
ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honor: therefore
show me the dream, and the interpretation thereof.” Still the wise men
returned the same answer, “Let the king tell his servants the dream,
and we will show the interpretation of it.”
Nebuchadnezzar began to see that the men whom he trusted to
reveal mysteries through their boasted wisdom, failed him in his great
perplexity, and he said, “I know of certainty that ye would gain the
time, because ye see the thing is gone from me. But if ye will not
make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for
ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the
time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that
ye can show me the interpretation thereof. The Chaldeans answered
before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can
show the king’s matter.... It is a rare thing that the king requireth, and
there in none other that can show it before the king, except the gods,
whose dwelling is not with flesh.” Then was the king “angry and very
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furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.”